Herstory The Treasure Within

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Her-story The Treasure Within

• EWMD 25th Anniversary
• 1984-2009
• merkel_at_unesco.de

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The Mosaic of Memory
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The Mosaic of Memory

• Women leaders in international relations
• Access to (political) power, participation
• Peace and security matters, human security
• United Nations, Human development, Human Rights

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1985 ff Beginning of the end of the Cold War
years of change

• Solidarnosc 21 requests gt the summer 1989
  Gdansk round table
• Glasnost and Perestroika
• Sustainable Development / Gro Harlem Brundtland
  Petra Kelly
• 1988 two peoples two states (Algiers, PLO
  National Council
• www connecting knowledge

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1985 ff women who made a difference
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1990 ff Copernican Turn I Human development
index

• 1990 1st Human Development Report
• 1990 Aung San Suu Kyi (NLD, Burma)
• 1994 UN Rapporteur on Gender Violence
• Nobelprize Rigoberta Menchú Guatemala
• Transition / End of apartheid

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1990ff women in new rolees
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1995 ff Beijing!!! 28.000 women

• See the world through womens eyes
• War in Europe mass rapes in Bosnia Medica
  Mondiale (2008 Alterntive Nobel Award)

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1995 ff 30.000 faces!!
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2000 ff Copernican Turn II Peace Counts

• 2000 UN Security Council Res 1324
• WW II gt a Europe of orphans
• Internat Tribunal on War Crimes (The Hague /
  Arusha) Louise Arbour
• NobelPrize Wanghari Mathai Kenya

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2000 ff women waging peace
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2005 ff women leaders on stage

• Anna Lindhs legacy (Sweden) ALFoundation
  Alexandria
• Angela Merkel Chancellor (Germany)
• Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)
• Graca Machel a political heavyweight at the age
  of 55 (Mozambique / South Africa)

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2005 women risking their lives
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Her-story from WithIn

• History and Biography
• The 100 inspiring women who made me the person I
  am today
• The 100 (hopefully!) supportive men I know

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Think about this!

• Grab your diary
• Talk to your ancestors
• Talk to our daughters

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2009!!!

• Public Image of Collaborative couples
  (Michelle/Barack)
• UN High Comm HR(Navanethem Pillay)
• UN Spec Rapp on Violence against women(Yakin
  Ertürk)

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2009 ff Yes, we.

• Guess what!

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EWMD 2030/2050/2080Women World Bank

• The flight of the flamingos
• Start slow fly high
• fligh together!
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